The comic is pretty funny, but the site design is hilarious. Viewing the source is worthwhile: Does your browser support script language="SCHEME" and so on?
That is beautiful. Wow, I remember those days. I was just as bad, I'm sure. (Hey, I still have the source for one of my early web page versions. Maybe I should upload it somewhere for nostalgia's sake. I'm happy to see that the scrolling status bar thingy isn't working in my current browser.)
Yeah. Not nearly as bad as the XKCD example of course, but a lot of the elements are there. Under construction icons, random template graphics, textured bg for no reason, some embarrassing footer logos, hit counter, I think one of the sub-pages is in a webring...
You know, one of these days I should really do something about my ostensible *current* web-page, which is really only better by virtue of being extremely minimalist. Have home pages been completely obsoleted by social media? An interesting question for a different post.
Wow, that was highly amusing. Glad I looked at my livejournal today, I read XKCD on RSS feed, so I would have totally missed this. Source is fun too, If browser="ie" GOTO 50! that's even more old school than Geocities.
And I'll admit, I had a site on a webring, I don't remember which site it was now, but I remember pitching it as a way to generate hits. And I actually did have a page on geocities until just now, it was basically there to link to the webcomics I read, but I used it a lot and I had to move the content over to Google to keep it.
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You know, one of these days I should really do something about my ostensible *current* web-page, which is really only better by virtue of being extremely minimalist. Have home pages been completely obsoleted by social media? An interesting question for a different post.
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And I'll admit, I had a site on a webring, I don't remember which site it was now, but I remember pitching it as a way to generate hits. And I actually did have a page on geocities until just now, it was basically there to link to the webcomics I read, but I used it a lot and I had to move the content over to Google to keep it.
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